Dölau (noble family)

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Family coat of arms at Siebmacher

The von Dölau family was an old Vogtland and Meißnish noble family .

history

The family name appears in different spellings as "Döhla", "Döhlau", "Döla", in Siebmacher as "Telaw". The ancestral seat was often wrongly stated in the literature as Dölau near Schkeuditz . Dölau on the Weißen Elster , a district of Greiz in the Vogtland : Burg Dölau is more correct . For the first time in 1288 an "Otto von Döhlen" was mentioned in Vogtland. In the Reussian they owned Cossengrün and Dittmannsdorf , today part of Gornau in the Erzgebirge , Unterpohle (on the Triebe) and Ruppertsgrün and Liebau ( Liebau Castle ), both today parts of Pöhl (Vogtland). They also owned the manor and later castle in Kleinwolmsdorf and a mill in Hüttertal (near Radeberg / Saxony). In the 17th and 18th centuries several people were in high positions in military service or in the administration of Electoral Saxony . She was raised to the baron status in 1697 . The family probably died out in the late 18th century.

A branch of the family came to Döhlau ( Schloss Döhlau ) at court as a ministerial in the wake of the Lobdeburgers . They appeared u. a. in the comparison to Castle Epprechtstein closed in 1356 and sold a farm to Oberpferdt to the monastery Hof in 1379 . The property around Döhlau passed to the Rabensteiner zu Döhlau at the end of the 14th century . Until the beginning of the 16th century they were owned by Helmbrechts and Schauenstein . The abbesses Veronika in the Hof monastery and Margarethe in the Himmelkron monastery came from this family.

coat of arms

The coat of arms at Siebmacher shows three fish ( pike ) arranged one above the other in silver on a red background. The helmet covers are red and silver. The crowned crest is decorated with deer antlers . The baronial coat of arms is augmented by further shield motifs .

literature

  • Karl Edelmann: Chronicle of the formerly independent community Döhlau . Döhlau 2008. pp. 9-12.
  • Otto Titan Hefner: Studbook of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany , 1860, volume 1, page 287 ( digitized version )
  • Johann Christian von Hellbach: Adels-Lexikon , 1825, page 285 ( digitized version )
  • Helmuth Meißner: Depictions of coats of arms in and around the former Himmelkron monastery. In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . Volume 83, 2003.
  • Theodor Zinck: Himmelkron - Description of his past and present . Bayreuth 1925. pp. 27-32.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edelmann, pp. 9-12.